Other labels that often mislead consumers tout fiber content or hype products as low fat.
These days every piece of paper from both green-minded or green-washing companies seems to have that cumbersomely long yet necessary tag line, "printed on 100% post-consumer recycled fiber with vegetable-based inks"–or some version thereof.
Banks that made $2.65 billion in unsecured loans to WorldCom are testing interest in WorldCom's consumer, business and fiber-optic networks.
How can a global alliance of food (and fiber) consumers and food and fiber producers literally suck down a significant proportion (50 ppm) of the excess CO2 that's already up in the atmosphere?
Blair Levin, head of a consortium that advocates gigabit Internet service, has urged cities to minimize construction delays, round up interested consumers and allow fiber to be rolled out incrementally to the areas that demonstrate enough demand.
Thorectes species are characterized by the presence of mandibles with strongly developed scissorial areas and well-developed molar areas capable of triturating dry-pellet, an adaptation that suggest that these species are dung-fiber consumers and not dung-juice consumers [48].
The currently used analytical methods for identification, characterization and quantitation of asbestos fiber in consumer talcum products include polarized light microscopy, x-ray diffraction analysis, transmission electron microscopy with selected area electron diffraction and electron microprobe techniques.
Thorectes lusitanicus, a Mediterranean ecosystem species adapted to eat semi-dry and dry dung (dung-fiber consumers) is also actively attracted to oak acorns, consuming and burying them.
Incorporated into a broad variety of consumer electronics and optical fibers, lasers also are used to cut metal, perform surgery, trap atoms and trigger nuclear fusion reactions.
NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber.
